KOCHI: A controversy is raging on the social media with some demanding the sacking of a Bangalore-based professional for his Facebook post seeking justice for the eight-year-old Jammu rape victim. Others term it a hate campaign based on twisted facts. Deepak Sankaranarayanan, an active social commentator, working at a multinational company, had on Saturday wrote: “Those 31 percent who voted for Hindu terror must be shot if they stop justice being done in the case.”
In an explanatory note, he said he was articulating the dictum, ‘let justice be done, even if the heavens fall’. The BJP supporters claimed it is an open call for the massacre of the people who voted for it. The party’s IT cell convenor R. Sandeep complained to the state police chief citing his earlier posts to bolster the claim that he was denigrating the armed forces. Lending support to Mr Sankaranarayanan, finance minister Dr T. M. Thomas Isaac said the targeted attack against him is a desperate attempt by ‘communal and fascist forces’ to divert the attention from the heinous crime.
“The post in question doesn’t endorse any form of violence,” he said. “It actually calls upon fellow citizens to uphold the real values of Indian democracy. Those who fail to understand (or pretend to have failed to understand) the essence of the post are behind the propaganda that Deepak has called for violence.”
